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RE: Proof of God and Charlie Brown
October 9, 2010 at 5:30 pm
So, in a trivial sense, God does exist. Damn. We'd better change the name of these forums.
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RE: Proof of God and Charlie Brown
October 10, 2010 at 6:19 am
No no.... God's existence and the existence of the mere imagining of his existence are two different things.
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RE: Proof of God and Charlie Brown
October 10, 2010 at 7:06 am
(This post was last modified: October 10, 2010 at 7:06 am by The Omnissiunt One.)
Not if you believe that all of the world's an illusion.
Anyway, now that we've proved that Charlie Brown exists, we 're going to have to start thinking of theodicies to explain the existence of shoddy doghouses.
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RE: Proof of God and Charlie Brown
October 10, 2010 at 1:58 pm
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The whole of the world can't be an illusion because those who imagine the illusion can't be illusions and they themselves are part of the rest of this world, whether it's illusory or not (otherwise they couldn't live and survive in it).
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RE: Proof of God and Charlie Brown
October 20, 2010 at 12:48 pm
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(October 10, 2010 at 1:58 pm)EvidenceVsFaith Wrote: The whole of the world can't be an illusion because those who imagine the illusion can't be illusions and they themselves are part of the rest of this world, whether it's illusory or not (otherwise they couldn't live and survive in it).
An interesting assumption. Of course if you are imagining those who imagine the illusions, then they are in fact illusions.
Blame Hitchens, Dawkins & Harris...